Impact of COVID on Domestic Violence

Jason, Mary, Hanna, Victor, & MaryClare

Questions We Found Interesting

  1. How has COVID impacted Domestic violence rates in Chicago?

  2. Which communities have been the most impacted by this?

  3. How did rates during the quarantine compare to rates when we weren't in lockdown?

The Data

Further Definitions and Limitations of the Datasets

Data Cleaning and Exploration

Visualizations

This heatmap shows the weighted number of domestic violence crimes per rounded latitude and longitude during 2020.

This figure examines the number of crimes per the top four category during the three time periods (pre-, during, and post-lockdown) to see if primary categories and counts varied.

Overall domestic violence crime seems to be highly concentrated in certain communities in the south and west sides of Chicago.

High concentrations of communities of color are in the south and west sides of the city.

High rates of hardship are reported in the south and west sides of the city where there are higher concentrations of people of color and higher instances of domestic violence reported.

The figure below illustrates the relative frequency of specific search terms over the course of the period that we were curious about.

The Analysis Process (see accompanying notebook)

Conclusion

Implications